Art Is The Expression Of The Sensation Of Taste

Art is synonymous with the existence of a “perpetual here and now” that unites reality between the Inner (self) and the Outer (world or things).

I look carefully at the small “Fini” chewing gums. They seem so sweet at first sight, I almost feel their taste before chewing them, which ensures a special experience of an art of experiencing the present moment. By carefully studying the unique combinations of exotic flavors, assortments of colors, flavors and coolness, I will leave room for fantasy to give rise to a concept of the “good taste” type. They seem to highlight the idea of “transformable reality” – because what I see at first glance, the thing that focuses my attention, changes its texture as soon as it comes in contact with the mouth.

Much more than a culinary delight, more than an aspect full of delicacy, I have to take into account the feeling of the sweet-sour taste of "Fini" gums, so as to improve the inner experience of what I am, from a different perspective, through the sensory knowledge of things already lived, accomplished. And it was only out of the pleasure of exploring the vast sensory world of taste, flavor, and visual perspective that I allowed myself the luxury of finding refuge in the artistic realm.

I understand that a chewing gum is different from a candy, a caramel or a square of chocolate, and this happens around the path of the art of sorting, choosing, filtering (what I need, what I don’t need) about a certain content that instantly reveals its effect, primarily at the sensory level. It is a matter of feeling, of manipulating the senses in order to eliminate the obstacles that reason itself creates when I become aware of the danger of a possible dependence on the sensation of an irresistible taste. The severity of such an addiction should not be underestimated.

Can you prove your knowledge of reality by repeating the sensory experience of the things that matter to you, in order to reach the formation in the mind of a topos of aesthetics (as a whole)?

I must tell you that I did not come across the taste of “Fini” chewing gum by chance. It was not a whim of my deep being, an intimacy of the closeness between reality and painting, a desire for a changing moment, it was not the subject of a transfer of information with ideational content. Rather, it was just a momentary attraction for the color combination that dresses the final version of a product with an ideal aesthetic look for each specific act of perception.

The object that enters the visual field is often the star of the taste that I am not allowed to miss.

Was it an act of courage in the dominant atmosphere of the non-figurative that involves abstracting the relationship between two concepts: “the beauty of things” and “living has value”? What makes “Fini” gum stand out in the evolution of the idea of beauty: as an artistic manifestation that I tried to make less abstract? As a rupture of modernism, paving the way for new art forms? As a break from one’s self with the environment?

One thing is for sure. Topos is my attempt to isolate in a single narrative sequence what is found in the way of representing the satisfaction that the relationship between good taste and the finesse of a habit that inspires me gives. Hence the claim of aesthetics to draw the diagram of moments of great satisfaction, to highlight the intensity and depth of this uplifting feeling called: flavor.

That’s all I need: to push the boundaries of art and science, showcasing the highlight of a chewing gum whose sweet-sour taste lasts for as long as the sugar doesn’t melt in your mouth. Obviously, as in the case of many dilemmas related to the aesthetic sphere, it is a purely subjective matter and is exclusively about taste. After all, I believe that art is synonymous with the existence of a “perpetual here and now” that unites reality between the Inner (the self) and the Outer (world or things).

Art is the result of an external experience acquired with the help of visual perceptions, from which I fascinatedly extracted the vision of a Self that knows at any moment what it feels like.

Art Is The Expression Of The Sensation Of Taste if we highlight the subjective state of the one who delights in the pleasure of experiencing a special interweaving of flavors, states, colors, textures, etc. And since we’re talking about art with the help of its taste and the richness of its flavor, here is what the writer Francois Chenet once said:

“A particular flavor emerges from the work of art, an essential and dominant quality that gives it the Saxon specificity that must awaken in the one who contemplates it an immediate understanding of the intrinsic nature of the work. “Aesthetic flavor” is a subjective state of the spectator, listener, or reader, through which his consonant affective dispositions or moods, in harmony with the inciting work, come into contact with it, procuring a lasting aesthetic delight.”